Elicia and Cole Abbott with their baby daughter Penelope, who escaped injury when a tree fell on their Tanah Merah house. Picture: Mark Calleja Source: The Courier-Mail

NEARLY 3000 homes are still without power in southeast Queensland after last night's savage storm.

As of 2.45pm, 2951 homes and businesses were without power with the majority of the affected homes in Logan.

During the severe weather, power to 58,000 homes and businesses was disrupted.

Energex recorded winds of more than 90km/h and 16,000 lightning strikes.

More than 360 fallen power lines have been reported to Energex.

In Brisbane 480 homes and businesses are still without power while 355 in the Lockyer Valley remain in the dark with 1876 in Logan, 199 in the Redland City Council area and 41 in the Scene Rim Regional Council area still without power.

Earlier, The Courier-Mail reported that a baby narrowly avoided injury when a tree fell on her bedroom in Brisbane's south during last night's ferocious storm.

The Abbott family of Tanah Merah, in Logan, estimate the repair bill to exceed $60,000 after a tree collapsed onto their roof, causing interior damage.

The roof of the main bedroom, laundry and baby's bedroom caved in, with branches extending inside the home.

Cole Abbott, 25, said his seven-month-old daughter Penelope had been sleeping in her room just minutes before the tree crashed through the house, coming to rest above the child's crib.

Elicia and Cole Abbott with their baby daughter Penelope, who escaped injury when a tree fell on their Tanah Merah house. Picture: Mark Calleja

"The scariest thing was the fact of how close it was to getting her it was literally only five, 10 minutes after we moved her," he said.

"We're just glad that she was safe, I don't know what would happen if she'd been in there. I don't know what I'd be doing right now."

Mr Abbott's wife Elicia, 25, was also home at the time.

"The storm just picked up all of a sudden out of nowhere and the noise woke Penelope up, if she slept a little bit longer she would have been in there," Mrs Abbott said.

"It's lucky we weren't on our bed or we would have been decapitated."

Mr Abbott was in the shower when the tree fell.

"It was a loud, loud bang but I didn't think it had hit the house," he said.

The tree fell around 5.30pm, but despite immediately calling the SES the family have yet to receive any help, with rain pouring through the holes in the roof overnight.

The tree also came to rest on Mrs Abbott's father's car, which was parked in the driveway, smashing the rear lights.

A baby's damaged bedroom after a tree fell on her family's home at Tanah Merah.

The family are familiar with wild weather after living through two cyclones in Townsville but said this was the worst storm damage they had suffered.

"At the end of the day they're just objects," Mr Abbott said.

Meanwhile, a woman was knocked to the ground by falling debris as her home's roof caved in during last night's storms.

Lisa Strudwick, 52, her former professional rugby league player husband Ross, 63, and their son Andrew, 17, were inside their home on Torres St at Loganholme when the roof collapsed in multiple places as trees fell through the ceiling.

Mrs Strudwick said the storm looked like a "gold ball" as she watched it roll towards the home from the back patio.

"I got up and walked inside and then I was just on the floor, I had no idea what had happened," Mrs Strudwick said.

The roof of the dining room was the first to collapse under the weight of a fallen tree with roof tiles hitting Mrs Strudwick on the head, eye and legs.

"I was screaming because I thought the roof had collapsed on them as well," Mrs Strudwick said.

Andrew was dozing in his bedroom when a large tree ripped through the ceiling.

The Tanah Merah home of Cole and Elicia Abbott, where a tree fell on their house during Sunday night's storm. Picture: Tim Marsden

"Andrew's room copped heaps, he luckily got out. We just changed his room around yesterday, where the bed had been was hit (when the roof dropped)," Mrs Strudwick said.

The family sought shelter outside as the storm continued to tear through their home.

"We sat down out here because we thought it was safer and we just kept hearing the continual booms of the roof collapsing in other parts and trees falling" Mrs Strudwick said.

"You just think your house is going to protect you and it just didn't last night," she said.

The mother of five now was two stitches below her eye, one stitch on her leg and multiple stitches underneath her hair on her head.

Today the family are trying to salvage what they can but expect to be out of their home for months.

At 7am, more than 13,000 houses remained without power as Energex crews continued emergency repairs across the southeast.

Energex spokesman Nathan Hatch said crews were working hard to repair damage and hope to have power restored to most properties this morning.

He warned that some of the 10,000 properties in the hardest-hit parts of Logan and Beaudesert may still be without power later today.

Brian Willey took this photo looking east from Oakey, on the Darling Downs, about 9pm. PIC: Brian Willey.

Mr Hatch said 16,000 lightning strikes were recorded across south east Queensland since 3.30pm yesterday.

In a busy night for the SES, crews responded to about 90 calls for assistance. Two thirds of those calls came from the Logan area with residents reporting downed trees and damaged or leaking roofs.

"It's been quite a significant storm for us," Mr Hatch said.

Mr Hatch said 58,000 power outages were recorded. An average summer storm typically results in 25,000 - 30,000 outages.

According to senior forecaster Ben Annells, there could be more to come.

"Today is still fairly unstable throughout southeast Queensland," he said.

"It doesn't appear as unstable as yesterday but we should expect further showers and gusty thunderstorms.

"Damaging winds are certainly the main concern."

Mr Annells said any storm was likely to come through later this afternoon or tonight and head in a south to north direction.

Ross and Lisa Strudwick at their home after trees fell on the house and left Lisa injured. Picture: Mark Calleja

While the storm activity should ease, Mr Annells said showers are likely to hang around for most of the week.

"We will see isolated showers around tomorrow with an increase tomorrow night," he said.

Wednesday and Thursday are likely to be the wettest days of the week with further storm activity returning for the weekend.

Overnight, it was reported the southeast could be in the firing line again today after a storm yesterday afternoon left one man in a critical condition and damaged homes.

Emergency crews were called to Sir Fred Schonell Drive at 6.19pm where ambulance officers found the man unconscious at the scene after being hit by a large tree branch.

The man suffered serious head injuries and was rushed to the Princess Alexandra Hospital where he remained in a critical condition last night.

Hannah Vermeulen was at a water station behind St Leo's College on Sir William MacGregor Dve when the branch hit the man in front her.

"It took half an hour for the ambulance to get there. A doctor who was running stopped and helped, and another runner who had first aid experience helped too," the 24-year-old from Fortitude Valley said.

Ross and Lisa Strudwick's home after trees fell on the house and left Lisa injured. Picture: Mark Calleja

Runner Dave Withnall, 37, from Runcorn said the storm hit about an hour into the race.

"I was crossing the Green Bridge and people were supporting themselves with the guard rails to keep themselves upright in the wind," he said.

"There was wind and rain and a bit of hail."

Other shocked competitors were gathered at the University of Queensland running track.

In another incident a 53-year-old woman was taken to hospital after the roof of her home collapsed under the weight of a tree.

Emergency crews were called to the house on Torres St at Loganholme about 6pm to find part of the roof had collapsed.

The woman was not trapped, but suffered cuts to her head.

More than 55,000 homes and businesses in Brisbane, Logan and the Gold Coast lost power as 220 power lines were torn down.

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